SCIENCE

A project called PervasiveSUB has come out to help the blind and deaf people to get all television info on their finger tips literally. The program compiles all the subtitles of television channels and sends them to a central server which forwards them to smartphones or tablets. From there, they are sent to the Braille line of the deaf-blind person ...

In an eye-opener to those who had not anticipated any threat to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a giant seed bank 130 meters deep inside the frozen mountain in the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the structure proved futile 10 years after when ice started melting due to global warming. The seed vault, built in 2008, has one million packets of ...

The joint NASA and ISRO project to make NISAR – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite – at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars, possibly be the world’s most expensive Earth imaging satellite, is progressing to become a reality soon. NISAR will be a two frequency RADAR, with an L-band 24 centimetre RADAR and another S-band 13 centimetre one. S-band ...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope astronomers found a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt ...

If other regions go green it’s time to rejoice but not when Antarctica, an icy edge on the other side of the earth goes green, repleting its ice. Scientists cry foul as it indicates climate change, significantly global warming that is melting down the ice and giving scope to green algae now. A team of scientists from the University of ...

An elementary school in Oroville, US, was found covered with a huge dump of dead fish on Tuesday raising concerns whether it was a prank but experts clarified that it was possible that thunderstorms might have rained the fish on the school. The officials found the fish all over the playground, in drinking fountains and even on the roof. Since ...

The space experiment by India’s 18-year-old student Rifath Sharook weighing just 64 grams will be launched as part of the payload of NASA’s next mission on June 22, 2017, but it will not be placed in any orbit, clarified NASA on Friday. Named after India’s former President and scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the smallest cube experiment was part of ...

Indian space agency is all set to launch its prestigious GSAT-19 satellite, third in GSAT series to complete the mission to provide the sleepy Internet in India a significant boost to become a high-speed Internet nation. The project with three GSAT communications satellites — GSAT-19, GSAT-11 and GSAT-20 — will fulfil the future communication needs of Internet, television and smartphone ...

Indian astrophysicist Shrinivas Kulkarni has been named for Israel’s prestigious Dan David prize this year, making him share the honour along with other Indian recipients such as author Amitav Ghosh, music conductor Zubin Mehta and scientist CNR Rao. Kulkarni is currently a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, US and his contribution ...

SpaceX is launching its sixth Falcon 9 rocket in 2017 with Inmarsat-5 F4 communications satellite into orbit but not attempting recovery of the used rocket after its takeoff as it was hard to land the rocket after launch. To Watch Live on Youtube, CLICK HERE Inmarsat-5 F4 measures bigger than a double-decker bus and weighs nearly 13,500 pounds, making it ...

Human migration during the prehistoric period was driven by several pressures but mainly relied on the habitability of available new land, said a Tata Institute of Fundamental Research study. The researchers of TIFR, Mayank Vahia et al. have modelled prehistoric population dynamics using a diffusion equation with the help of numerical geological data for the Indian subcontinent taken from satellite databases. ...

US researchers have identified a new species of snakes with projections of what might have been the unique broad wings that roamed five million years ago in the form of fossils at the Gray Fossil Site in the US and named after the Russian mythology snake Zilanto with wings. The fossils have been identified as those of the new genus ...

Seen the video? This giant carcass of squid washed on the shore of Hulung Beach in Indonesia on May 10 and surprisingly the waters of the sea turned red, raising the curisosity levels of locals. Soon a 37-year-old Asrul Tuanakota recorded videos of it and uploaded it online. This giant squid’s carcass is 22 m long, 4 m wide and ...

As the US space agency NASA is making moves to live on Mars by 2030, China is keen to send its space scientists to the Moon first and built a simulator lab with the lunar environment in 2014 that has seen its recent batch of 8 students entering for a year-long experimental life. Though China is planning to send its ...

Scientists have been puzzled with short bursts of cosmic radio waves called Fast Radio Bursts coming from an unidentified source in the space ever since the first one on record was detected in 2001. The FRBs last just a few milliseconds but register about a billion times brighter than anything ever observed in the galaxy. The first fast radio burst ...

When a global team of researchers undertook a project to study whether Ice Age extinction trends could be applied to present day lions and tigers, they were surprised to find that next in the line are the African Lion and Sunda clouded leopard. Using a new global database FelidDIET, the team of scientists from the universities of Sussex, Oxford’s Wildlife ...

Centuries ago, Charles Darwin said the origin of life could have occurred in “some warm little pond” and now that evicence of life has been found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks. It gives credence to the scientific belief that origin of life on Earth arose in small, terrestrial ponds, or deep in the ocean. It could lead us to find ...

ARCHAEOGENETICIST MARINE SILVA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD PINPOINTS INDIAN ORIGINS USING TODAY’S POPULACE. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Indian Subcontinent harbours huge genetic diversity giving rise to an area of huge controversy among scholars and scientists over their origin and now a University of Huddersfield PhD student tried to answer the question using genetic evidence. A problem confronting archaeogenetic research ...

The latest evaluation of the Arctic sea reveals the ice melted by half in the last three decades and it would be almost free of sea ice by 2040, and no ice by 2070, rising the sea level and submerging many island regions on Earth. Satellite data collected by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme found that projections for the ...

The US defense classified X-37B space plane woke up Florida residents when it touched down on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after a secret two-year mission. The robust unmanned X-37B is huge as a mini space shuttle landed on the runway used by erstwhile space shuttles, said the US Air Force. Built by Boeing, the plane was launched off ...